The consensus among analysts covering Alphabet stock was for revenue of about $100 billion. Strong advertising sales at Google and YouTube, and robust demand for artificial intelligence compute power at Google Cloud, resulted in revenue of $102.4 billion, up 16% year over year. Google services, including Search, Android, YouTube and Chrome, saw revenue of $87.1 billion, up 14.5% year over year, thanks to ad demand and higher ad prices.
On June 5, it was reported that the company will be expanding its AI and cloud investments in Switzerland, committing $400 million to expand its data center infrastructure in the European nation. The additional capacity is expected to support more than 50,000 current customers and expand the availability of AI services for more sectors, including health care, finance government. Microsoft is capitalizing on its Azure platform's momentum as revenue jumped 39% in FY25 Q4, driven by AI services.
Nothing the 61-year-old director does could be termed "half-assed," and each of his movies is planned, scripted, and storyboarded with immense attention to detail. Such discipline is evident in Frankenstein, his adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. It's a movie del Toro has been trying to make for years, and it shows. The elaborate sets and costumes-as well as some embellishing of Shelley's story-could only be the work of someone as connected as he is with his source material.
Recently, I used Apple Photos to revisit the photos I took during the 2015 Thanksgiving holiday. There were some gems in there-memories I'd like to preserve forever. But there were even more images I regretted saving in the first place. You already know the ones I'm talking about. The near-duplicates of other, better photos. The blurry misfires. The shots of people with their eyelids drooping or mouths agape. The ones I accidentally took of the floor when my thumb slipped.
AI is becoming deeply embedded in how people shop, influencing more moments of the buyer journey than ever before. What began with simple personalization algorithms has evolved into systems that anticipate intent and remove friction from the buying process. Adobe forecasts a 520% surge in AI-assisted online shopping this holiday season-evidence of how quickly consumers are embracing these advancements. The traditional sales funnel is beginning to collapse as once-separate steps-search, comparison, and checkout-converge into a single, seamless interaction.
Dobot calls its version the Sinosauropteryx, named after the feathered, bipedal carnivore first uncovered by Chinese farmers in 1996. The robotic version, according to the South China Morning Post, features bipedal locomotion, optical sensors, and pre-programmed motion-controls. A highlight video which made the rounds on Douyin, the Chinese varietal of TikTok, pokes fun at the concept, showing the near-lifelike Sinosauropteryx stalking around a museum at night.
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One of the things that's happening here that's a little bit different, is this is going at a pace that's quicker. Because the pace is so quick, I think there's a possibility that there's a little bit more volatility or an unsettled transition around certain job functions.
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Meta established MSLin June to spearhead CEO Mark Zuckerberg's push toward what he has called "personal superintelligence," a term he uses to describe AI systems that could eventually surpass human capabilities.The division has quickly become one of Meta's most important and expensive bets. In the last few months, Meta has spent hundreds of millions of dollars hiring engineers and researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Apple, and other companies.
Estuary, the right-time AI data platform that alleviates bottlenecks, has raised $17M in Series A funding led by M13. Founded by David Yaffe and John Graettinger in 2019, Estuary has now raised a total of $24M in reported equity funding.
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In doing so, we went down a series of rabbit holes, finding site after site cross-quoting other sites with the same basic message. We finally found one reference to a French podcast that Gates might have been on as a guest, although we were never able to find the podcast itself. Because The Economic Times and MSN are both outlets with some credibility, all the other sites appear to have taken their Bill Gates quotes at face value.
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The big difference is that Zocdoc plugs into the United States healthcare system, which is a huge mess. And that means Zocdoc has a pretty big moat - it's hard to make a database of all the doctors, and all the insurances they take, and understand healthcare privacy laws, and get a bunch of verified reviews from patients that comply with those laws, and on and on.
Here is the mental model that has been most helpful for me. Treat AI like an intern with zero experience. An intern fresh out of university has lots of enthusiasm and qualifications, but no real-world experience. You would not trust them to do anything unsupervised. You would explain tasks in detail. You would expect to review their work multiple times. You would give feedback and ask them to try again.
Designer, engineer, researcher-they're all becoming increasingly similar, according to Figma cofounder and CEO Dylan Field. Field scaled the company from an idea to a public company with over 1,600 employees. Many of those employees are now experimenting outside of their fields, he said on " Lenny's Podcast," adding that AI was making distinct job titles less and less relevant. "I think that we're seeing more designers, engineers, product managers, researchers, all these different folks that are involved in the product development process dip their toe into the other roles," he said.
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